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Hampi Utsav in Hampi
Hampi Utsav is Karnataka's state-run heritage festival staged each November among the UNESCO-listed ruins of the Vijayanagara Empire's capital. Over three days, processions, classical dance, Yakshagana performances, and a light-and-sound show reanimate temples like Virupaksha and the Vijaya Vittala complex. Once called Vijaya Utsav, it blends tourism promotion with folk memory of a fourteenth-century empire that once ruled much of southern India.
Hampi Utsav takes over the boulder-strewn ruins of the Vijayanagara Empire's fourteenth-century capital, staged among temple gopurams and the Stone Chariot at Vijaya Vittala Temple that once anchored one of the medieval world's wealthiest cities.